All of our family goes to midnight mass at church, my uncle usually stays behind to play santa and puts all of the pressents under the tree, we sing and dance around the kitchen table, usually on the kitchen chairs, we play cards or marbles, we drink whiskey, you can hear the busyness and loud chatter around the kitchen table, which is great, the kids usually play together in the basement, all the women prepare the feast, and we eat and drink wine, we do the Chinese Christmas exchange for the whole family each one buys one gift for the gift exchange, and then at midnight on Christmas eve we all open our pressents rather than on Christmas morning then we party the night away and everyone sleeps over! That is why Christmas is my favorite time of year.

I always recite the poem Twas The Night Before Christmas, I have been doing this to my younger siblings when I was the oldest child and now I have been reciting to my kids, I have never missed a year in over 30 years